I’m still #masking (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I’m still #masking (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you're still masking and in Canada, the government surplus (bid) site has boxes of really good quality 3M masks in stock again (440 in a box).. grab masks for cheap! (note the expiry dates on them range from next year to two years, so check that and set your price limit accordingly! Also check shipping costs if they're not local to you for pickup) .. go to the Personal Protection Equipment section.
Repeating an old joke I read somewhere.
Neuro-typical whoever: Hey man, I really dig your vibe.
Neuro-spicy me: Yeah, I know. It's yours and it's really wearing me out!
The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/02/meeting-industry-normal-3
I can go months, perfectly content in my #mask, no one bothering me, and then -- boom! A random person makes a disparaging comment & my fortitude is shaken. I need to tell myself to brush it off, buck up, remind myself that I'm being reasonable in trying to protect my health & others'.
It's just a lot of mental & emotional work. And it shouldn't be necessary, but it is.
Which is upsetting & infuriating. But I can't let it get to me, or I wouldn't be able to keep #masking.
This one's on people who talk about the few places they wear masks still.
https://bsky.app/profile/doodlesbycharlie.bsky.social/post/3lr4m5gut3c2y
"Girl, Interrupted" but it's about a burnt-out AuDHD girl -- desperately trying to maintain focus and her train of thought -- who gets more and more agitated every time she's interrupted, until finally all of her coping techniques fail her, her mask breaks, and she has a neurospicy meltdown due to overload and overwhelm
Wife and I laying in bed, joking about how she pretended to like a lot of things I liked early in our relationship because of comphet and toxic monogamy.
Me: “Our relationship was built on lies!!”
Her: *turns to me and stares meaningfully*
Me: … “okay, fair.”
### Dear CBT (cc ABA), masking is not success.
Tuesday, colleague A (young) comes to work complaining of light #cold symptoms
Friday, colleague B (middle age) arrived to work with similar initial symptoms. Then arrived today with full-blown snot monster and desk full of drugs.
Colleague C and D already coughing and sneezing too.
People still ask me why I haven't stopped #masking in the office but never ask anyone why they come to work full of #contagious #virus
I'm at the airport. Aside from me, the only other people I've seen #masking is a pair of Asian ladies. One of them had some kind of head cover, and a brilliant solution for the mask: two pins on the sides of the head cover, with the mask loops hanging from them. My ears are so envious!
How much did the failure of the #ScientificCommunity to accept and communicate the #Airborne nature of many serious #RespiratoryDiseases result in Trump losing in 2020 and then returning in 2024?
(This is apart from the millions of deaths that the initial COViD-19 emergency caused outside the USA.
The downstream failures around #Masking and indoor air quality #IAQ remain largely unresolved.)
Hypothetical:
Trump wins 2020. Covid deaths +++. Gaza explodes in his hands.
The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/02/meeting-industry-normal-3
Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-05/study-finds-that-removing-school-mask-mandates-contributed-to-22-000-u-s-covid-deaths-in-just-one-year